Day: December 5, 2025
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Review: When We Feel We Exist by Dre Hill
Dre Hill’s When We Feel We Exist is an intimate collection of poems that slap you in the face with life’s enormity whilst quietly urging you to continue on as you were - on the condition that you notice. This collection of poetry goes against the grain of Hill’s previous works, which historically evolved around…
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Review: No Rest For the Wicked by Rachel Louise Adams
Rachel Louise Adams’s No Rest for the Wicked is the kind of eerie, slow-burn, atmospheric thriller that feels tailor-made for fall reading. Set in a Midwestern town that practically worships Halloween, the novel follows Dolores, an analytical emotionally guarded forensic pathologist who’s summoned home after almost twenty years, when an FBI agent calls to say…
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Review: My Dreams Come True by Rocio Carranza
My Dreams Come True by Rocio Carranza is a collection of eighteen horror short stories that remind you the real “horror” is human nature. The collection is full of strange and daunting writing that will leave you questioning the characters and Carranza’s true intentions. Separated into three parts, each section contains six unique short stories…
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Review: Culling of the House of Boars by Jack Finn
Culling of the House of Boars by Jack Finn is a horror novelette that drags you into the pits of darkness and leaves you with a thirst for blood. With Rome standing at the epicenter of the world, there’s only one clan that dared to stand against them, the Dacia. Failure refusing to be an…
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Review: Signals from the Edge by David Horn
David Horn’s Signals from the Edge, Tales from the Fault Lines of Time and Thought will take you to the future, to the past, and back around again. There is not a single story that drives his newest book, but a collection of them with a similar thread: memory. Memory is the little girl that…
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Review: Pressing Matters by Paul Avery Tindol
Pressing Matters written by Paul Avery Tindol, is a gory horror slasher novel made for music lovers and the woefully employed. Set in Luckenbach, Texas the novel follows a small crew of warehouse workers for the Luckenback Press, a vinyl record pressing plant, as they attempt to survive the daily drudgery full of hard work,…
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Review: Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas
If you love Greek mythology, messy lovers, and gladiators with some fighting and flirting, you’d absolutely love Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas. This sequel is chaotic, addictive, and absolutely unhinged in the best possible way. It’s sharp, myth-soaked, with the perfect blend of emotional depth and feral energy that Mas fans know and love.…
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Review: Foe by Hannah Cao
Foe is a sophisticated sophomore novel from poet/book-pedler/baker/hat-wearer Hannah Cao which drags the reader along scalp-first with a thrilling mystery plot.
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Review: Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith
Though the author is no longer with us, Fat Girls Dance by Cathleen Meredith is not a gloomy read. As the first page states, it’s “not the woeful lament of disconsolate, forgotten fat girls”. Rather, Fat Girls Dance, in all of its hot-pink glory, is a heart-felt, pulse-quickening ode to the power of female friendship…
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Review: The Year of the Wind by Karina Pacheco Medrano; Translated by Mara Faye Lethem
The Year of the Wind: A Journey Through Memory, Violence, and Belonging The Year of the Wind is the English-language debut of Peruvian writer powerhouse Karina Pacheco Medrano. Her success has steadily grown throughout Latin America and Europe, lending her an international audience that has finally culminated in The Year of the Wind—an emotionally resonant, deeply reflective
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